Educational Volunteerism

The Educational Volunteerism Community of Practice (CoP) serves as a collaborative hub for organizations fostering and advocating volunteerism within formal and non-formal educational settings.

With our CoP members we:

  • Knowledge Share: successful strategies and approaches that have worked well in different contexts.
  • Resource Exchange: good practices of education volunteer programs
  • Support: share advice and brainstorm together 
  • Professional Development: explore opportunities for members to enhance their skills through workshops and webinars.
  • Network and Mentor: connect with like-minded individuals, to facilitate knowledge transfer and guidance.
  • Advocacy and Awareness: advocate for the importance of volunteerism in education and raise awareness about the impact volunteers make in improving learning outcomes for learners in formal and informal settings.

Educational Volunteerism White Paper

Solving the Sustainability Challenges of Educational Volunteerism at Scale:

To tackle the persistent challenge of not being able to sustain or successfully scale educational volunteer initiatives (such as volunteer facilitated reading clubs, math clubs, caregiver workshops, catch-up clubs, etc), Save the Children co-founded the Educational Volunteerism Community of Practice together with the mEducation Alliance.

The working group of the Edu Vol CoP together with consultant Adrienne Barnes Story, in this white paper, describes several common challenges in sustaining educational volunteerism at scale and proposes using a layered model of volunteerism to mitigate these challenges. 

Through collaborating with communities to simplify volunteer expectations and tasks according to local priorities and through partnering with already sustaining institutions/organizations with volunteer programs (Rotary Club, Peace Corps, Corps Africa, government-run national youth service programs, FBO run volunteer programs, etc.), education programs can provide more sustainable approaches at scale for community-based volunteers’ recruitment, capacity strengthening, incentivization and/or management.

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Educational Volunteerism Community of Practice:

Learn from our Educational Volunteerism Community of Practice!

We convene a quarterly community of practice (COP) meeting with Educational Volunteerism members on various professional development topics of common interest. Please find below video recordings of the meetings, along with topic and presenter details. 

November 2023

Topic: Refugee Led Mobile Learning Circles Drive Rapid Growth

Presenters: Learning Upgrade

August 2023

Topic: The Educational Volunteerism CoP Focus Areas

May 2023

Topic: What makes a Good Volunteer?

Presenters: World Vision Rwanda, Team4Tech, Youth Impact

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Jax Chaudhry

Jax Chaudhry leads Project Invent, a national nonprofit that empowers youth with future ready mindsets for individual success and global impact, through invention. Originally from the Southside of Chicago, Jax loves working with students, families and partners to ensure every student can attain success as they define it. For more than 10 years, she has worked with elementary schools, high schools, education nonprofits and led regional teams and operations to ensure student success.

Michael Leventhal

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning scienceMichael Leventhal is co-founder of RobotsMali, a pedagogical and AI4D laboratory and STEM education center in Bamako, Mali. RobotsMali has trained thousands of students from elementary school to high school in computer science, robotics, and artificial intelligence, coached national robotics teams that have won 32 medals in international competitions, and developed technologies using AI and robotics for the social and economic development of Mali. Before becoming an educator in Mali, Michael worked as a technologist in Silicon Valley.s, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.

Enouce Ndeche

Enouce Ndeche is the founder and Director of Vijana Amani Pamoja ,VAP a community scheme based in Nairobi Kenya that uses the power and the popularity of the game of soccer/football as a catalyst for social, educational and economic empowerment.Enouce holds a degree in sociology from Egerton university and he is also the 2020 individual award recipient “Diversity and Inclusion Eminent Leader Award Enouce is also a certified Sports Philanthropy and Executive, George Washington University and is a 2023 Gratitude Network fellow.

Kenneth Y T Lim

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning sciences, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.